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i heard a remix of Tegan and Sara – Back in Your Head on KEXP the other day and tracked it down.  you can download it for free from brooklynvegan.  it’s not a really heavy-handed remix, just some different drums and juiced up guitar melodies.  i really enjoy a well-done remix that keeps the musical [...]

Naturally 7 metro concert
a group called Naturally 7 had an impromptu exhibition on a NYC Paris metro bus singing Genesis’ “In the Air Tonight” and totally rocked the bus. everyone on the bus was getting into it. why can’t seattle have this stuff. all we got are bums that mutter to themselves [...]

i watched “24 Hour Party People” again last night. the first time i watched it was such a revalation about the music i like. i had no idea that the british punk scene had given rise/way to new wave which somehow spawned the modern rave scene (to put it very simply). it’s [...]

i went to sasquatch at the gorge this weekend. it was pretty rad. tessa has a photo set up of all the pictures she took. it hailed on saturday, it made The Constantines play harder. laura veirs was great live. we got up to the front for Death Cab. [...]

i was searching around for some lyrics for this great band i found called The Go Find and i came across a video of what might be my favorite song by them. the song is called “Over the Edge,” check it out.

just for kicks i decided to listen to Skinny Puppy. i used to listen to a lot of industrial/noise/digital hardcore and i remember that even skinny puppy was a bit much. i think i was just getting some of their more esoteric tracks. i never listened to an album, just tracks on [...]

swiped this off ruben’s blog but i felt it was worth replicating. “Can I Get an Amen?” (top level, you have to navigate the piece itself) is a documentary of sorts on the origin of the breakbeat with a subtle message on how flexible copyright law encourages the recycling of past culture to move [...]

so i found what might be the awesomest thing ever to happen to music.
Pandora
it’s based on the Music Genome Project and picks music based off of an artist or song you tell it. it then creates a streaming music station, that you can pause (no rewind, license issues) that plays music in a similar [...]

not me you asshole.
Billy Corgan has a new album coming out on June 21. the only reason i know this is because i happened to go to the itunes web page and see that there was an exclusive pre-release song available on the itunes store. and the only reason i bought the song [...]